Originally Posted by Droford (Post 5237460)

I dont know what sunny looks like these days but she couldnt have aged much worse than missy hyatt

Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5237490)

Missy still looks pretty hott for a 55 year old chick. She's aged better than Sunny.

Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5237529)

Lol, what’s the Dolph/Sunny story?

Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5237529)

Lol, what’s the Dolph/Sunny story?

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan (Post 5237509)

Sunny reverted back to hot somewhat recently. Though I think she may have flipped again.

Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito (Post 5237541)

Dolph and Sunny had been flirting through Twitter for a few months. Then a PPV (Survivor Series I think) was in Florida, driving distance to where Sunny was in town for a conference. So they decided they were gonna actually hook up after the show.

Dolph wound up getting concussed during the show but ignored the doctor’s advice to lay low. Drove to Sunny’s hotel and they proceeded to fuck all night/morning for 7 hours.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter

This brings up the question regarding Pac and AEW. From what we’ve been told, it’s become very difficult as far as cutting through the paperwork to get working visas for wrestlers because the government wants proof that the people being brought in are exceptional in talent and not taking a job away from an American. But those at AEW have said that for people who are established stars they don’t anticipate any issues, although those who are not established, the process will take longer.

Originally Posted by SlickyTrickyDamon (Post 5237610)

Is Braun Stroman booked for SNL next Saturday?

Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5237615)

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Originally Posted by Deadspin

One such grail was known to have existed, but had long been believed lost by WWE. This was a 1986 bout in which Bret Hart drew an apparent miracle of a match out of Tom Magee, a strongman/bodybuilder/gymnast/karate black belt with leading man looks who was getting a tryout with the promotion. The legend behind this match was that Vince McMahon immediately proclaimed Magee his next champion after watching on the locker room monitor. Said legendary part of it is tied to just how little of a legend Magee turned out to be. The “Man of Iron” was otherwise a dud as a wrestler, which understandably made people want to see how the hell Bret got anything great out of him. Until Tuesday night, it was presumed that we’d never know for sure.

But towards the end of that evening’s SmackDown Live broadcast, during which I was also recording my podcast, a well-known wrestling fan and sometimes ringside photographer named Mary-Kate Anthony tagged me and a few others when she tweeted a photo ...

Fans who didn’t know Anthony were skeptical, but WWE producer T.J. “Tyson Kidd” Wilson—a Hart family member by marriage—quickly vouched for Mary-Kate in the replies. As it turns out, she’s had this tape for the last decade or so. It came her way when Bret, via mutual friend/Bret’s assistant Marcy Engelstein, sent his tape collection to Mary-Kate for conversion to DVD. Despite the fact that it came directly from Bret, there’s still some residual doubt that it’s actually the match. The veteran tape collector Roy Lucier discovered last year that Bret and Magee met again on May 16, 1989. Like the more famous October 7, 1986 match, it was an unaired “dark” match at a television taping. Unlike the first match, Magee was asked to take the lead and it went terribly. The VHS tape in question is labelled September 19, 1989, which is likely not a match date at all—there was no TV taping that day, and Magee looks to have left the company entirely a few weeks earlier. The label might be a mistake, or it might be the date that the VHS copy was made for Bret. Both are about equally likely given that WWE was not yet in the habit of recording every event for insurance purposes, so it’s probably not from a random show that took place on the date written on the label.

Originally Posted by Deadspin

Hell, it’s not even the only famous Bret match to have fallen through the cracks: His only singles match with Andre the Giant, which took place on a card in Italy and was shot by a local crew, is also not in the archives. As a result, the version WWE released on DVD is an obvious YouTube rip.

Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5237650)

So keen to see that Bret/Magee match.

Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5237691)

lol I've seen that match.

Tom was fine, just didn't have the charisma or intensity.

Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5237728)

In watching back, I'll take a Gibbs match over a Lombardi match.

Jose-Luis Rivera is my guy though...for all the wrong reasons.

Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito (Post 5237670)

If Magee could’ve worked one iota, he’d have 100% gotten a WWF Title reign

Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5237734)

Magee didn't look awful in that Gibbs match. If he came around today, he'd be pushed regardless.

Originally Posted by Fightful

HBO and WWE may be at it again.

Fightful Select reported this afternoon that various sources confirmed Sunday that WWE's independent contractor status will be covered on HBO show "Last Week Tonight". The episode, which we were let to believe was set to air on Sunday Night, is a political show mixed with elements of satire and comedy aimed at exposing injustices with host John Oliver. The show spoke to several names in the industry.

This isn't the first time WWE has been brought up in the show. Last year, Oliver and Last Week Tonight covered various happenings in Saudi Arabia, and naturally, the WWE relationship was subsequently covered.

Fightful contributor David Bixenspan confirmed that the story was to be the focal point of the episode.

The show was a hot topic among several wrestlers that we spoke to who were backstage at WWE's live event in Hershey, Pennsylvania on Sunday. One told us that they didn't think it was a coincidence that the topic was being talked about one week away from WWE WrestleMania 35.

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5237742)

Yeup and probably a very good chance the famous champ vs champ match at Mania VI occurs a year or two earlier with Magee in the Ultimate Warrior role instead.




He's the type of wrestler that would have absolutely befitted if he had access to WWE's modern day developmental/learning system or worked the territories first for the valuable experience.

Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5237754)

He was actually sent to stampede when the WWF was sorta using it as a Developmental territory. They did the same with Outback Jack and Ted Arcidi

Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5237662)

With New Japan needing something to help them spruce up Dallas and the Tokyo Dome shows next year, and with AEW about to launch and possibly get a fair bit of attention, do you think a New Japan/WWE relationship is completely out of the question.

WWE don’t need it, but with the recent strategy to boost ratings being “let’s call up the top four from NXT,” maybe there’s some appeal in working with #3 to bring in some fresh faces they have to protect (and god knows they need some protected stars). There are some WWE talent who could get a lot out of some New Japan appearances too (Cesaro and Harper come to mind). They could also do Jushin Liger vs. Rey Mysterio at some point.

Originally Posted by Droford (Post 5237777)

I hate John Olver but most of the stuff he manages to not bash Trump over I agree with. Id assume Trump's relationship with Vince means he'll be mentioned about 7 times durring the segment unless its real short

Originally Posted by Droford (Post 5237777)

I hate John Olver but most of the stuff he manages to not bash Trump over I agree with. Id assume Trump's relationship with Vince means he'll be mentioned about 7 times durring the segment unless its real short

Originally Posted by SlickyTrickyDamon (Post 5237820)

Does he do another "wrestling is gay" joke?

Originally Posted by Tom Guycott (Post 5237806)

... because they have done soooo well with the likes of Kana, Nakamura, Gallows & Anderson, and KENTA. Even Devitt is debatable at the moment. Hell, the only person who got half a chance from there is AJ Styles, and his trip to Japan was pretty much to scrub TNA stink off of him.

In fact, it is specifically the treatment of Shinsuke Nakamura more than anyone else that is the biggest barometer of my judgment. The man should have been WWE Champion at least once at this point, especially when his stock was up. He already paid his dues in his career, and WWE has this "well, you need to start over with us" mentality for most people. At this point, they've just established to the fans that he isn't as good as even the hype they themselves gave him. He is in a random midcard tag team. This after being an OVER AS FUCK babyface and the surprisingly glorious "no shpeak Engrish" heel turn that the company apparently didn't know what to do with. Why multiply that by, say, a whole entire other roster?

The biggest hurdle I can see, if this were ever any kind of possible to maintain a sustained relationship like New Japan currently has with Ring of Honor, is that WWE would be pretty adverse to putting any of the New Japan talent over in any type of matchups people would want to see. What I mean is, there is no way we'd get a Cena vs Okada type of match. We wouldn't get GoD vs Usos. It would be a series of squash matches of lesser card members eating pins for the stars.

Also, Liger already had a WWE match with Tyler Breeze. You wouldn't remember it now, because WWE has done a fantastic job of burying Breeze over the years since then. It wasn't as great as Zayn vs Nakamura, but obviously Liger is legendary, and he gets called in to establish that he's such a big deal you need to bring in Liger... and you end up doing nothing with that? The hell, WWE?!

Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5237761)

WWE is such a fucking shady promotion. Their history is riddled with a bunch of bullshit, the independent contractor stuff is bullshit, the Saudi stuff is ridiculous, and that doesn't even touch the scandals.

Originally Posted by Tom Guycott (Post 5237808)

So, you dislike him because he has sense enough to not be a fan of the world class con man holding the highest office in America. Got it.

Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5237922)

Widow, please die already.

Originally Posted by Black Widow (Post 5237926)

Even if i did something tells me I'd still be better off than you.

Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5237941)

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Originally Posted by Big Vic (Post 5237928)

Not to change the topic but remember when Dolph randomly ended Drews undefeated streak? Only to disappear 2 weeks later.

Originally Posted by Volare (Post 5237953)

8 Mil eh?